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• Google's Swiss Street View Battle Highlights Privacy Challenge Google is being sued in Switzerland over privacy concerns related to Street View. This issue illustrates the larger problem Google faces balancing information and privacy.
• Google Dashboard: Your Services, All in One Place View a demo of Google's new Web page where you can see how just how much of their data Google stores.
• Google Dashboard Gives You a Degree of Control Google is putting all your account info on a single page, hoping to calm fears about its intentions. But not everyone is convinced.
• Google Dashboard: Good -- But More Explanation, Please Google's Dashboard utility is a great first step toward transparency, but it doesn't go far enough.
• Google Dashboard: A Closer Look Google Dashboard allows you to manage your Google digital life. Here is a closer look at how it works.
• PeerBlock Helps You Surf the Web in Secret Take your system off the grid--as far as the bad guys are concerned--with free utility PeerBlock.
• Google Dashboard Bows to Users’ Privacy Concerns Google Dashboard puts all your Google account data in one place and lets you manage it.
• Feds Can Search Your E-Mail Without Notice, Judge Rules Only the ISP must be served with a search warrant to let law enforcement search your virtual mailbox, a federal judge says.
• Stalqer iPhone App Redefines Creepy Stalqer iPhone App allows you to iStalk your friends.
• Are Flash Cookies Devouring Your Privacy? Small Flash files can track your online movements, and they don’t vanish when you delete normal tracking cookies.
• Hotmail Passwords Made Public, Site Claims Thousands of usernames and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts were leaked online late last week, according to a report by Neowin.net.
• NotAwesome Firefox Add-On Selectively Hides Your History Hide sensitive bookmarks from appearing in the AwesomeBar with NotAwesome.
• Get a free, disposable phone number from inumbr If you need to publish a phone number online, don't use your real one. This terrific service generates temporary numbers that protect your privacy.
• Hospital Tweets Get out of Hand Med students on social networks get careless about revealing patient information, study finds.
• Bank Sues Google for Gmail User's Identity After the bank accidentally sent confidential information on more than a thousand customers to the wrong Gmail address, it wants to know who reads that account.
• Meet Google's 'Data Liberation Front' Google has announced a "Data Liberation Front" designed to make it easier for you to reclaim your data from the company's Web-based services.
• Readers React to Gmail, Amazon Blunders, and Government Spying It's time once again to recap the best of what's been pouring into my mailbox (now that my e-mail is working again). Here's what the residents of Cringeville had to say.
• Too Much Online Sharing May Haunt You, Study Warns Most young Web-users don't care about the length of their "digital tattoos" but Symantec says they may come to regret it.
• ACLU Lawsuit Says Student's Cell Phone Was Illegally Searched A middle school honor student was expelled after authorities searched his cell phone and found evidence of what they claimed were "gang-related activities."
• Is Your Health Privacy at Risk? Hospitals, pharmacies and health insurance companies are among the hardest hit when it comes to hacker attacks, stolen laptops, spying employees and other...
• Privacy Office Approves Laptop Searches Without Suspicion Travelers arriving at U.S. borders may soon be confronted with their laptops, PDAs, and other digital devices being searched, copied, and even held by customs.
• Facebook Users Forefeit their Security, Poll Shows Only a third of social networkers apply the security safeguards they've been given, a security firm finds.
• Keep Big Brother off Your Cell Phone Data that enables network providers to route calls also enables them to gather data that tracks their customers' whereabouts; what's the compromise?
• Facebook Cleans Up, but Apps Must Change Analysis: The redux brings more privacy for users, and less freedom for developers
• Thanks, Canada: Facebook's 4 Big Privacy Fixes Canadian courts are pushing Facebook to clarify and enforce privacy issues that we should've demanded earlier -- but we still have a wish list.